inspiration Archives - Christina Irene

Combating the Myth of Endings

9 Apr

One of my struggles has always been the evening appointment. I remember when I was a waitress and worked evenings, it was hard for me to be productive and enjoy the day because I had this thing to do later,...
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The Good of the Awful Year

12 Mar

Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of one of the worst days of my life. I know too many others can say the same thing. My own Friday the 13th of March 2020 went like this. I went to work as...
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I Just Made a “Reset Box”: What’s Inside

28 Jan

It was quite a journey of thought, which I won’t bore (or frighten) you with, but I’ll tell you where I landed. I decided to make a piggy bank of sorts, filled with ways to reset a moment when I...
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11 Things I Do at Bedtime That Make Life a Little Better

22 Jan

I love preparing ahead for myself. Doing those little (or big) things that might make a future moment better. (It’s why I keep up my Splatquake kit.) So doing little things for my tomorrows has become part of my bedtime...
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Salvage Your Pandemic Calendar with Theme Days

1 Dec

Ever since the shutdowns in March, I’ve been honing my staycation and day-trip skills. I was supposed to fly to Scotland at the end of March, to celebrate my 40th birthday. When that was looking unlikely, I came up with...
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The Mockabout

1 Nov

From May to July, 2019, my best friend Amica and I went on a journey across the country that we early on dubbed a “walkabout,” per some sky hippies in Georgia. (See that adventure here.) The world is totally different...
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Wet Wood Fire

30 Oct

Last weekend, Amica and I traveled to a friend’s hunting camp in Pennsylvania’s Moshannon State Forest. During the day, I took him and his dog to a little winery I love: Elk Mountain Winery. We ordered our tasting and chose...
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My Easy Daily Journal

8 Oct

I started a new routine and I really like it! I started keeping a journal that’s been really easy and helps me stay focused and positive. I take about five minutes (or less) each morning on it, and spend a...
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Why Their Opinion of You Doesn’t Matter

4 Sep

I caught myself being bad again. This time I caught myself caring way too much what other people think. I’d been doing pretty well not caring about others’ opinions of me and my actions and choices, but more and more...
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It’s not “too” anything. It’s my “-ism.”

27 Aug

Here’s tonight’s rabbit hole: I wanted to write an article, but couldn’t settle on a topic. I thought about earlier today how I was chatting with a man who’d been to Alaska. He was showing me pictures of it on...
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